The Chet Baker Room Amsterdam

Chet baker see 796 traveller reviews 286 candid photos and great deals for hotel prins hendrik at tripadvisor.

The chet baker room amsterdam.

For jazz fans this is a sacred place as it is where trumpeter chet baker unfortunately fell from the window to his death. On the outside wall you can see a memorial plaque in front of him. The chet baker room. Het verhaal wordt verteld door middel van frisse eigentijdse nederlandstalige versies van jazzklassiekers uit chet s american.

Hotel prins hendrik has its own bar café de groote swaen. December 23 1929 may 13 1988 was an american jazz trumpeter and vocalist. Amsterdam tourism amsterdam hotels. The rooms are large for amsterdam standards kept very clean and have lots of windows to watch the action outside and let in a cool breeze.

See 8 reviews articles and 7 photos of relief chet baker ranked no 496 on tripadvisor among 883 attractions in amsterdam. Police ruled out foul play and large quantities of drugs and alcohol were found in his room. Relief chet baker amsterdam. The chet baker room the chet baker room is een voorstelling over het leven imago en werk van chet baker.

From the early stuff in paris 1955 barclay records to all the great pacific jazz recordings with russ freeman et al that helped define the west coast sound so beautifully photographed and chronicled by the great william claxton. De jazzlegende met een popster status die klonk als een engel eruit zag als een filmster en het leven leidde van een junk. Chet baker was staying in the prins hendrik hotel in 1988. Baker earned much attention and critical praise through the 1950s particularly for albums featuring his vocals chet baker sings it could happen to you.

Amsterdam tourism amsterdam hotels. He was found with serious head wounds on the pavement outside having apparently fallen from his second floor room. I have been lucky enough to stay in room 210 the chet baker room twice now. Chesney henry chet baker jr.

I ve listened to chet baker for a long time. Chet baker see 797 traveler reviews 286 candid photos and great deals for hotel prins hendrik at tripadvisor. Born in 1929 in oklahoma the legendary trumpeter and singer chet baker came to a tragic end in amsterdam in 1988 having fallen from the window of his second storey room at the hotel prins hendrik.